Harvey Weinstein Witness Testifies That Producer Masturbated On Her After Encounter On Set Of ‘Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights’
28.10.2022 - 05:03
/ deadline.com
A dancer who was a body double in the 2004 Harvey Weinstein-produced film Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights took the stand Thursday in Weinstein’s Los Angeles sexual assault trial. A so-called “prior bad acts” witness, Ashley M. gave a harrowing account of an hotel encounter with Weinstein during the Miramax film’s 2003 production in Puerto Rico that ended with Weinstein allegedly masturbating on her.
It marked the fourth day of testimony in the trial in which Weinstein faces a maximum sentence of more than 100 years in prison if convicted on grand jury charges for four counts of rape, four counts of forcible oral copulation, one count of sexual penetration by use of force, plus one count of sexual battery by restraint and sexual battery.
Ashley M, who is not a charged victim in the case, testified that she was 22 and met Weinstein on the set of the film. After getting her alone for a private conversation he said something about a “naked massage,” according to pool reports about her testimony. After she told Weinstein she was engaged, said she he said he had done things like the naked massage with Gwyneth Paltrow and it would be good for her career.
She says she was trying to figure out a way out of the situation. “I’m supposed to be on set, which I was … so I thought I would just be able to go on set. He replied saying I’m the one in charge here they all answer to me,” she says.
She described him as “aggressive” and it made her “scared.”
Weinstein told her he would to be waiting for her to take her to the hotel. Ashley M testified she called her fiance and mother and said she was “afraid” that there was only entrance to the set and he’d be waiting there.
Weinstein was in front of the entrance to the set when she got back,
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